Labo Competition

The Labo competition section presents fresh and innovative approaches to cinematic language and forms of storytelling. A jury made up of figures from the domestic art scene will name one of the seven films the festival’s Best Experimental Film.

Rampant bullying on the threshold between the real and virtual worlds. A finger pointed at the soullessness of mass tourism. An unsettling cinematic dream about artists’ fears and insecurities.

A compelling archival look back at the year 1952, when London was unexpectedly choked by the “Great Smog” long before the unsustainability of industrialization became an urgent topic of debate. A radical essay about artificial intelligence, fully generated (how else?) by artificial intelligence. A pseudo-Marxist complaint about the futility and aimlessness of living, which perhaps can only be illuminated by a bunch of bouncing balls. And all of it topped off by an ultimate surreal ride in the style of “Jarman meets Lynch meets Bowie.”

The 113-minute block of films will be screened with a brief intermission.